anaheim-gazette 1919-04-03

IN THE OIL FIELD (From Brea Progress) The Standard Oil Company's wildcat well on the Irvine Ranch at Newport is now drilling at 3650. The formation is a shale and is not showing any oil as yet. The Standard will make this hole a deep test well and thoroughly test out Newport and vicinity as an oil field. The Liberty Petroleum Well still stands shut down. It seems that this company is waiting on the outcome of the Standard's deep test well before resuming further operations. On account of water developing badly in this well a cementing was done. The cement job shut off all the oil as well as the water and now the well is worthless. The Standard Oil Company's Anaheim Union is drilling at 3580. At this depth no oil sand has been picked indicating as you see the great dip of the oil sands as we come westward. Lock No. 1, the most westerly well now drilling in this new field, shows 3520 feet of hole and no oil sand. On the Wilson tract the General Petroleum has a rig up, boilers set, and now the rigging up work is advancing rapidly. The General Petroleum's property in this new field is known as the Wilson lease. The Standard Oil Company has deepened Kraemer No. 1 some two hundred feet and at 2970, the present depth, a good grade of oil sand is showing. The well when put back on the pump should make not less than 300 barrels. The boilers have been set tons; Santa Barbara, fourth, with 1705 tons; Riverside, fifth, with 115 tons, and San Bernardino, sixth, with sixty-three tons. These figures represent the tonnage shipped by the California Walnut Growers' Association, which produces and markets over 75 percent of all the English walnuts grown in the United States. In spite of the fact that Ventura county is third in production, the Saticoy district, which is in Ventura county, topped all the districts with 1856 tons, Santa Ana running a close second with 1323 tons, Goleta in Santa Barbara county being third with 1223 tons, Puente and Los Nietos in Los Angeles county fourth and fifth with 1221 and 1174 tons, respectively. The California Walnut Growers' Association early last fall estimated its 1918 crop on the basis of 9000 tons, and the harvest amounted to 12,002 tons. The production proved to be the heaviest in the history of walnut growing. To some extent this unusual tonnage was the result of peculiar weather conditions in November. Ordinarily the growers get from 300 to 400 tons of what are called gleanings—nuts known as sticktights, which are generally in the tops of the trees. It is difficult to gather them. Last fall a heavy shower loosened the husks on the gleanings, and a high wind, following the rain, blew most of them to the ground. Instead of having 350 tons of gleanings, the growers had approximately 1000 tons of them, and their bank accounts were fattened in proportion to the surplus. California yields approximately 17,500 tons of walnuts a year. This was the mark established in 1918, and it will perhaps be exceeded this year because of two-thirds proposed to foreseeable "ridden" incident to a desire is proposed in order affairs to scramble cerns and destroy organizations in such restitution difficulty and thus force t o government gard to the judge people or their grass. This is a plaint going on. It is derly procedure letter and spirit laws of the Uni dent and his Po have set their v he constitution mit this govern to certain policy future of the n The vital qu country is wh ment by law or Now is the time for all. LEMON INDU Fruit Growers of Cl Imagine the Los Angeles t with lemons—475 miles. Im admirable hi lemons and yo tremendous ve lemon product And even t enough left o from Los Angle Petroleum has a rig up, boilers set, and now the rigging up work is advancing rapidly. The General Petroleum's property in this new field is known as the Wilson lease. The Standard Oil Company has deepened Kraemer No. 1 some two hundred feet and at 2970, the present depth, a good grade of oil sand is showing. The well when put back on the pump should make not less than 300 barrels. The boilers have been set for No. 3, and the derrick is now waiting on the necessary lumber. The deepest well now drilling anywhere in the California field is the Union Oil Company's No. 6 on the Bastanchury Ranch near Fullerton. This well, now 5190 feet, almost a mile deep, is drilling in blue shale and is not showing the faintest color of oil or an odor of gas. The blue shale formation has continued for over 800 feet and is regarded as the longest run of any one formation ever drilled through in this field. The drilling is being done inside 4½-inch casing and consequently cannot continue much longer. No. 49 on the Union Oil Company's Graham-Loftus is now a complete project and on the beam making 125 borrels of oil. The completion depth is 3504 feet. This well now leaves only two more drilling on this once famous big property. No. 51 is drilling in the blue shale at 2600, and No. 51 is making a hole in the conglomerate at 2500. The completion of these two wells will probably see the development work on this property brought to a close. The lease is pretty well drilled up, more wells would be very small producers. The busiest and most active field anywhere in the State is the now Kramer field opened by the advent of the Union Oil Company's gusher on the Chapman Ranch east of Placentia. Two of the largest oil companies in the State are rushing development work at top speed, and many smaller companies are making frantic effort to keep up with the fast pace. Ten new wells have been staked off. Lumber is being put on the ground in truck lots and derricks are springing up all over the field. After flowing for several days and producing oil at the rate of 4000 barrels daily the big Union Oil gusher on the Chapman has ended up and is quiet. Tools run in shower loosened the husks on the gleanings, and a high wind, following the rain, blew most of them to the ground. Instead of having 350 tons of gleanings, the growers had approximately 1000 tons of them, and their bank accounts were fattened in proportion to the surplus. California yields approximately 17,500 tons of walnuts a year. This was the mark established in 1918, and it will perhaps be exceeded this year because of new acreage coming into bearing. The production increases at the rate of about 2000 acres per year. Up to the present time the association has been able to dispose of crops without difficulty. To eliminate the possibility of overproduction, it has now started a campaign of national advertising to increase the consumption of English walnuts, the desire being to get people to eat the seven to nine months out of every year instead of only during the holiday season, which is scarce more than sixty days in length. This year the organization, embracing more than 3000 walnut growers, is spending $75,000 to stimulate the sale of its products, and in the future it expects to set aside for advertising purposes, one-quarter of a cent per pound on the first pool of the season, and three-quarters of a cent per pound on the second pool. The first pool is shipped by November 15 each year, and the second pool goes forward after that date. DICTATORSHIP MUST BE OVERTHROWN This is a time for plain speaking, if individual liberty is to be maintained at home and national freedom maintained abroad. While the President of the United States is in Europe trying to bind this nation to a league which, in the form proposed by him, surrenders the independence of the United States in several vital particulars, his Political Master General is proceeding at home in the usurpation of powers never intended to be conferred upon him by law. If the league of nations shall be formed with this country a party, on the plan proposed by President Wilson, our national future will be at the mercy of the varying interests of other nations in Europe and Asia. If Mr. Barleson can succeed Imagine there Los Angeles with lemons—475 miles. Immediately admirable blues lemons and you tremendous violet lemon product. And even enough left over from Los Angeles route from Los city, however, with lemons California Fruit Here are change shipment will be approved each car there a total of 3,600 lemons to the individual length of each we get 2,700,000,000 feet, or Taking the Angeles and miles, our 42 placed end to end and forth on it. A little strand and you can lemons literature highway through mountains up to the San Joaquin Some lemon It is almost present year volume of len California. Nearly every over all other citrus fruits in the infrequent heat. The coming ord in Valencia (or summer)uced in great as nave California's over, have no only orange try during t oranges have tor in putting eminent positive public. It should be Valencia crop and that new bearing every cate that they Two of the largest oil companies in the State are rushing development work at top speed, and many smaller companies are making frantic effort to keep up with the fast pace. Ten new wells have been staked off. Lumber is being put on the ground in truck lots and derricks are springing up all over the field. After flowing for several days and producing oil at the rate of 4000 barrels daily the big Union Oil gusher on the Chapman has sanded up and is quiet. Tools run in the hole Thursday revealed a peculiar and unusual condition. At 900 feet a solid plug of sand and shale stopped the tools. This plug is now being drilled out. Owing to the danger of damaging the pipe this drilling will have to be proceeded with with great care. Just how thick this plug is is a matter of conjecture. It may be that the pipe from the bottom is filled up. This being the case it will take some time to redrill and get the hole cleaned out. It is expected that as soon as the hole is cleared that the well will make another record production. Everything is now in readiness to handle any emergency. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HARVESTED FROM WALNUTS Ranchers Make Good Profit From the Industry this Year. Orange county leads the world in the production per acre of English walnuts. Last year it grew 4224 tons, which, if estimated at the average price of 23 cents, were worth $2,365,440. Los Angeles county is second from the standpoint of production, having grown 3594 tons of walnuts last year, worth $2,012,640. Ventura county was third, with 3299 which, in the form proposed by him, surrenders the independence of the United States in several vital particulars, his Political Master General is proceeding at home in the ursurpation of powers never intended to be conferred upon him by law. If the league of nations shall be formed with this country a party, on the plan proposed by President Wilson, our national future will be at the mercy of the varying interests of other nations in Europe and Asia. If Mr. Burleson can succeed in his high-handed effort to commit this country to paternalism or worse, on the absurd theory that his present actions are essential to the winning of the war, then individual rights in this country are at the mercy of the varying political interests or whims of whoever happens to be temporarily vested with official authority. Many people have been won to the support of the league of nations scheme by the false assertion that we must choose between that league and chaos. Many people have been induced to look complacently upon usurpations in the form of seizures of telephone, telegraph and cable properties because those properties happen to be owned by corporations and because it is falsely asserted that they can be operated more economically and efficiently by government officials than by private managers. According to the most plausible advice received from our secretive representatives in Europe, it is apparently the plan to weave the league of nations into the peace treaty in such a way as to force its adoption without opportunity to consider it solely upon its own merits, thus practically nullifying that provision of the constitution which stipulates that treaties shall be made only upon the advice and con ANAHEIM GAZETTE PICK OUT YOUR DATES GET READY FOR GRUNION Expert Tells When the Little Fish Hold Moonlight Dances. Grunion time again! Some people spend a pile of money in high class rods and reels, others put a crimp in their bank rolls buying nets and it is rumored that some unscrupulous cusses resort to dynamite—all to catch a few fish. These are the unfavored ones, for if they lived in Orange county all they would have to do is watch the moon and when the time is ripe go out and gather them in by the sack full, writes Vic Walker in the Register. Grunion time has rolled around again. The little fishes will soon be out on the sand dancing around on their tails to the delight of the hundreds of fishing parties. Every year finds many new converts to the sport—a sport that combines an outing at the beach and a mess of the best fish the Pacific affords. The finest sport of grunion hunting is to break in the novice. His downfall is sure, for if you make your story strong enough he will join the party with the solemn intention of not furnishing the laught and sure end up in being the whole show and a scream at that. Go as strong as you like in advising the new member. Warn him about not speaking above a whisper or showing a light. Tell him he must move very cautiously and then to avoid being seen by the little fishes and by all means take along a change of clothes as he might get wet—all of your good advice will go over the top of his head and likely enough he will Imagine the State highway from Los Angeles to San Francisco paved with lemons—yes, the entire route of 475 miles. Imagine every foot of that admirable highway covered with lemons and you'll gain an idea of the tremendous volume of California's lemon production in a single year. And even then there would be enough left over to reach part way from Los Angeles to San Diego. The route from Los Angeles to the bay city, however, could be paved entirely with lemons shipped through the California Fruit Growers' Exchange. Here are the figures: The exchange shipments of lemons this year will be approximately 9000 cars. In each car there are 400 boxes, making a total of 3,600,000. Estimating 300 lemons to the box, we get 1,080,000,000 individual lemons. Estimating the length of each lemon at 2½ inches, we get 2,700,000,000 inches or 255,000,000 feet, or 42,614 miles. Taking the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco at 475 miles, our 42,614 miles of lemons placed end to end would stretch back and forth on the highway 90 times. A little stretch of the imagination and you can see these 90 strings of lemons literally paving the state highway through valleys and over mountains up the coast route or over the San Joaquin route. Some lemons! It is almost needless to say that the present year will see the greatest volume of lemons ever shipped from California. Nearly every year sees an increase over all other years in shipment of citrus fruits with the exception of the infrequent seasons of frost or heat. The coming year will fix a new record in Valencia shipments. Valencia (or summer) oranges are now produced in quantities about half as great as navel oranges. California's summer oranges, moreover, have no competition. They are the only orange known in the country during the summer. Valencia oranges have been an important factor in putting Sunkist in its pre-eminent position with the consuming public. It should be borne in mind that the Valencia crop is increasing rapidly and that new acreage is coming into bearing every year. Plantings indicate that the Valencia crop will equal intention of not furnishing the laught and sure end up in being the whole show and a scream at that. Go as strong as you like in advising the new member. Warn him about not speaking above a whisper or showing a light. Tell him he must move very cautiously and then to avoid being seen by the little fishes and by all means take along a change of clothes as he might get wet—all of your good advice will go over the top of his head and likely enough he will join the party dolled up in his best. Just to let you know he is not falling for all your line. But he has and the little fish will see that he performs up to schedule. Supposing this beginner to be with a regular grunion party. There are scads of good eats, a big bonfire and everybody will stretch out around the fire to enjoy camp-fire stories and songs. The beginner will commence to get anxious about the fish but the old-timers know their game and linger around their fire until the moon is up and casting long shadows on the sands. Occasionally a scout is dispatched to the front where he patrols the beach and then returns to report. When the first fish shows the camp-fire party breaks up and a rush is made for the beach and the chase is on. Grunion must travel in skirmish formation for they only show a few at a time for quite a while and these first fish are expert dodgers. Right here is where the beginner gets his. Before he realizes his actions he has chased some elusive fish square into an incoming breaker and when the chill of the cold water striking down his backbone awakens him to his plight—"oh well, what's the use, there goes another one" and he is off after another fish. About the time he gets pretty well winded and has lost his party he will get another surprise, for every breaker will come crashing in loaded with fish and the sands about him will soon be covered with shining little fishes all dancing and patterning with a sound like a brisk hall storm on a paved street. Poor beginner! He hasn't a sack but he has pockets and a hat, so he fills them all and wanders drippingly up the beach in search of his party. They are not on the beach but he spots them at the camp-fire and over he goes, hat and pockets bulging with fish, to be welcomed into the fold and hailed as the champion grunion hunt- ORDINANCE NO. 346. An Ordinance amending Section 2 of Ordinance No. 303 of the City of Anaheim, entitled "An Ordinance Prescribing the Duties of the City Attorney and Fixing his Compensation," passed and adopted on the 22nd day of June, 1916. The Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim do ordain as follows: Section 1. That Section 2 of Ordinance No. 303 of the City of Anaheim, entitled "An Ordinance Prescribing the Duties of the City Attorney and Fixing his Compensation," passed and adopted on the 22nd day of June, 1916, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 2. As compensation for his services, the City Attorney shall receive the sum of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars per month, payable monthly, provided that for extraordinary services to be hereafter rendered by him, he shall receive such sum or sum in addition to 'the sum of $100.00 per month as such extraordinary services may be reasonably worth." The words "extraordinary services" as the same are used in this section, shall be deemed to mean all actions and special proceedings prosecuted by or against said City of Anaheim, or any officer thereof in his official capacity in any Court of Record of the State of California or of the United States; or proceedings had before any officer, board or commission of the State of California, where evidence is introduced, argument had or where the City Attorney shall be required to appear in person before such officer, board or commission for the conduct of any such proceedings, also of proceedings had in any Court or before any tribunal in which the constitutionality or validity of any ordinance of the City of Anaheim or any resolution or other proceeding passed or adopted by the Boatof Trusses of said City, shall be attacked or California's summer oranges, more over, have no competition. They are the only orange known in the country during the summer. Valencia oranges have been an important factor in putting Sunkist in its pre-eminent position with the consuming public. It should be borne in mind that the Valencia crop is increasing rapidly and that new acreage is coming into bearing every year. Plantings indicate that the Valencia crop will equal the navel crop within a few years. Exchange estimated shipments for the year closing next August 31 are: (The Exchange markets 72 per cent of the state yield). Cars. Navel oranges ... 13,000 Valencia oranges ... 14,000 Lemons ... 9,000 Total ... 36,000 The navel yield was reduced by the January frost damage. Last year the shipments were much lighter because of the heat damage of June 1917. The totals for last year were 19,248 cars. The increasing importance of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange as a Southern California institution will readily be comprehended when it is explained that it did a business last year of $58,277,600. This vast sum represents the delivered value of Exchange fruit. The money returns on Exchange fruit were $36,000,000. The operating expense of the Exchange was only 5¼ cents per box. Judge West is receiving testimony in the trial of the action in which George W. Ford, pioneer ranchman, is suing Ton Cone, well-known horseman, for $4,000 and in which Cone on cross complaint asks for $3,000 from Ford. Considerable acrimony has developed and the trial has only well begun. Ford alleges that under an oral agreement Cone took possession of 220 acres. He says that Cone agreed to level part of the ranch and remove some eucalyptus trees. He says Cone failed to keep the agreement and Ford says he is loser $4,000. Cone replies that he was not allowed to carry out the contract and he is loser $3,000. H. G. Ames and H. C. Head are attorneys for Ford and Albert Launer and Clyde Bishop appear for Cone, the same are used in this section, shall be deemed to mean all actions and special proceedings prosecuted by or against said City of Anaheim, or any officer thereof in his official capacity in any Court of Record of the State of California or of the United States; or proceedings had before any officer, board or commission of the State of California, where evidence is introduced, argument had or where the City Attorney shall be required to appear in person before such officer, board or commission for the conduct of any such proceedings, also of proceedings had in any Court or before any tribunal in which the constitutionality or validity of any ordinance of the City of Anaheim or any resolution or other proceeding passed or adopted by the Board of Trustees of said City, shall be attacked or involved." Section 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed. Section 3. The City Clerk of the City of Anaheim shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and he shall cause the same to be published once in the Anaheim Gazette, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed, published and circulated in said City, and thirty days from and after its final passage it shall take effect and be in full force. The foregoing ordinance is signed, approved and attested by me, this 27th day of March, A. D. 1919. President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim. Attest: (SEAL) EDWARD B. MERRITT City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. State of California.) County of Orange) ss. City of Anaheim I. Edward B. Merritt, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, held on the 13th day of March, A. D. 1919, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said Board of Trustees held on the 27th day of March, A. D. 1919, by the following vote: AYES, Trustees Dwyer, Stark, Backs and Gibba. NOES, none. Absent and not voting, Trustee McFadden. And I further certify that the President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim signed and approved said ordinance on the 27th day of March, A. D. 1919. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said City of Anaheim this 27th day of March, A. D. 1919. EDWARD B. MERRITT City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. Special After-Inventory Sale We have a few Gas Ranges at just a trifle above cost purchased at pre-war prices. Now is the time to purchase that Gas Range you have been waiting for at the right price. These ranges are all standard, of the best quality and strictly up to-date with White Enamel Features SOUTHERN COUNTIES GAS COMPANY CROCKER WHEELER ELECTRIC MOTORS —furnish power for every purpose SEND FOR CATALOG—of Pumps, Engines and Motors for Every Service MITH BOOTH USHER CO ESTABLISHED 1893 THE PUMP AND ENGINE HOUSE OF THE PACIFIC COAST LOS ANGELES DON'T WANT TO DROP IT Right and left come protests against even the thought of the Orange County Farm Bureau and the Associated Chambers of Commerce droppng efforts to secure a mutual phone system for Orange county, and if the wrath of the people is sincere, there sohuld be little difficulty in organizing a cooperative company that would embrace seventy-five to ninety per cent of the telephone subscribers of the county. The project is one that will require time, the best legal advice and the skill of experienced men to put into definite action. What is everybody's business is nobody's business, and there is fear in some quarters that because of conditions represented by that trite old saying, the proposition eventually will die. The situation confronting the promoters as regards the control and power of the Railroad Commission is the big block. Were it not for this condition, those who are doing the hardest of the work in connection PROPOSALS Sealed proposals will be received by the Clerk of the City of Anaheim, at his office in the City Hall, 307 East Center street, Anaheim, up to Thursday, May 8, 1919, at 8 o'clock p.m. for doing all the city printing and advertising for the fiscal year ending April 30, 1920. The following is an estimate of the printing needed: One dozen License Receipt Books, of 100 receipts each, perforated and numbered. One dozen Water and Electric Light Receipt Books, of 100 receipts each, printed on both sides, perforated and numbered. One-quarter dozen Tax Collector Receipt Books, of 200 receipts each, perforated and numbered consecutively. One thousand (1000) Demands on the City Treasury. One thousand (1000) Postal Cards for Tax Collector's Notices. One thousand (1000) Assessment Blanks. One thousand (1000) Tax-Sale Certificates. One thousand (1000) Letter Heads in tablets of 100. Specimen copies of the above may be seen at the office of the City Clerk. Bladder to specify by the book and by the thousand, respectively. All advertising done by the City during said fiscal year must be specified by the inch, standard measurement, and all advertising must be done in accordance with the specifications on file in the office of the City Clerk, which specifications shall enter into and form part of the contract to be executed by the successful biddder. A certified check for $10.00 must accompany each and every bid. The Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim reserves the right to reject each and every bid. In this section, shall all actions and special prosecuted by or against the City, or any officer there- capacity in any Court of California or of its board or commission, where evidence document had or where the shall be required to ap- before such officer, board or conduct of any other proceedings or before any tribunal institutionality or validity of the City of Anaheim or other proceeding by the Board of Trustees, shall be attacked or ordinances and parts of conflict with the provisions are hereby repealed. City Clerk of the City certify to the passage and he shall cause the published once in the Anaheim weekly newspaper of printed, published and City, and thirty days final passage it shall be in full froce. Ordinance is signed, app-ited by me, this 27th day 1919. J. J. DWYER the Board of Trustees of Anaheim. EDWARD B. MERRITT the City of Anaheim. Merritt, City Clerk of the do hereby certify that ordinance was introduced the Board of Trustees of Anaheim, held on the 13th A.D. 1919, and that the passed and adopted at a said Board of Trustees 6th day of March, A.D. allowing vote: Dwyer, Stark, Backs not voting, Trustee Mc-certify that the President of Trustees of the City signed and approved said 6th day of March, A.D. 1919. WHEREOF I have here- and affixed the seal City of Anaheim this 27th A.D. 1919. EDWARD B. MERRITT the City of Anaheim. LOOK Now is the time to subscribe for the ANAHEIM GAZETTE Always newsy and reliable. Per year: $1.50 Your Home Paper